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Re: Places to eat in Indianola?

Taking my wife to the balloon festival this weekend. Anyone know some good reastaurants in Indianola?

Boy, your options are limited in Indianola. There are tons of food vendors out at the balloon field, but if you are wanting to get away from the field your only real options are:

-- Sports Page, good sports bar American food.
-- La Casa, decent Mexican food
-- Battles BBQ, same chain as the one in Ames, not quite as good.
-- Cals, a little American Bar and Grill type place. To be honest, I am from Indianola and I forget its there...not great food.
-- Brick House, a chicago style pizza place. I have only ate there once since it opened and the pizza was pretty good, but I don't hear great things from alot of people in Indianola.
-- Wynns Pizza and Steakhouse, I love this place. They have very, very tasty pizza, a nice little salad bar and a variety of non-pizza meals. It wont look like much when you get there, and wont look much better when you get inside, but it is some good food.
-- Pete's Pizza, all of the same things I said about Wynns could be said about Petes.

Re: Places to eat in Indianola?

Originally Posted by mj4cy

I see they have arts/crafts til 4 then the opening ceremonies at 6.

What is there to do between 4 and 6?

Go on a night that they do Night Glow. They tether all of the balloons once it gets dark and you can walk around on the field and talk to the pilots. It is really cool to see the balloons glowing in the dark, and if you have children they would love it.

Re: Places to eat in Indianola?

Originally Posted by mj4cy

We are going Saturday. I'm not sure if they'll have a night glow, but they'll have fireworks.

Saturday will be awesome if the weather holds up. The "mass ascension" on the first night is really cool to see. If the weather is looking at all iffy I wouldn't pay to go out to the balloon fields. Any substantial breeze and they don't go up.

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